Guild Wars 2

Spear is a no-go! They already confirmed that no water weapon will be used for land sadly.

Mmmmm My Howler thinks these tears are delicious!….. Seriously everyone crying and kittened, and I’m over here excited to play my Ele again with Warhorn. People underrate it way to much but it has a ton of potential with the Ele. So quit the kittening and wait to see what information comes out.

Can I get a link to that thread Nightwin?

My biggest issue is that whether your making the most sought after legendary in the game or one that no one even wants, it takes the same effort outside of the precursor. So I just wanna make sure my effort is going towards something great. I do love the look of Howler and it fits well into my circus ringmaster look I feel. Just don’t wanna be dissaponted or feel like I made the wrong choice.

That’s dissapointing to hear about Howler. So is it really bad now or just now as good as it use to be?… The videos I watched were from the changes and it seemed to be good to me.

I can’t do incinerator, I just don’t think it looks like a dagger to me. Plus I’m holding out and praying for Marjory’s to hit the gem store again!

As for the axe, I’m with you on that one. I originally wanted it as I played axe pre-patch, plus my warrior and ranger could use it, but dagger has become a non-negotiable for power necro now. I just wish Minstrel wasn’t so darn dumb looking or so anti-necro because I love my focus and 25 stacking Vuln in under 3 seconds!

Morning guys, figured I’d start a thread that wasn’t focused on our nerfs or how terrible our class is etc….

I’m looking to make my first legendary, and as I’ve all but put every profession aside because of how much I enjoy necro, I wondering for those that have made one, is Howler worth it? I’ve been trying to decide for forever what legendary to make, and as a power necro that things Incinerator looks stupid, I think I want Howler.

Looking for feedback from those with it, was Howler worth the time and effort, or do you wish you would have chosen a different weapon?… I prob run focus about as much as I run horn, but couldn’t bare to make minstrel, and tho i love the idea of GS Necro coming in the x-pac, I have every rare/special crafted GS skin in the game outsid of the legendaries as I played Warrior/Guardian almost exclusively my first 2 years. I have every mat, exept tokens and pre-curser now and just looking for some advice before I pull the trigger. Thanks and have a good day!

Just saw this after my thread. Dagger/Dagger Condi Counter Powermancer build:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-343Z;1kHFF0F4oIVJ0;9;468A;0136148147;4ING7U;1jzyvjzyva0m

This build has been very strong for me in tPvP

Here it is folks:
http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-343Z;1kHFF0F4oIVJ0;9;468A;0136148147;4ING7U;1jzyvjzyva0m

This is the build I’ve found to be the strongest for those still wanting to run Power Necro and needing a hard counter on all these condi builds. It is built around condi removal, transfer, and still maintaining the burst of your traditional power builds. 1v1 and even most 2v1 this build held up very strong. Has great team support with plague signet and well of power as well. It’s a little weak against bunker builds, but that’s to be expected, and I’d say it is about as strong as the old Powermancer against other burst builds.

I chose to run double dagger for the dagger 4s condi transfer as well. You can still swap it back out for Horn if you feel that you can go with one less transfer, but I’ve found it to be far more useful. I run traveler runes for the movement speed lost from horn, you can easily swap to Pack with horn if you prefer. Can also swap out Mauler for Barbarian if you want to go over 31k hp and sacrifice some ferocity.

Always open to input or suggestions. This build is tPvP focused but see it being a very strong roaming build in WvW as well. Thanks in advance for any feedback as this is my first attempt at an original build playing Necro.

Afternoon folks, first time posting here in a while. Really been getting back into focus on the warrior lately now that I have curbed my alt-oholic appetite. Since the new patch I have been combing the forums, and testing new builds looking for something fun, effective and a bit different for a WvW build. Here is what I came up with:

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-s;4VK-Q0S4cL-60;9;49JJ-J4;037-48;229-5314U;9m-Fvc4ufu1;13Wq0D2IZ4_A51sVGV2q;5cW5PcW5P;9;9;9-VVVVVV;9;0VT-6d

This build is based roughly off Matale’s current build as I’ve always been a fan of the defensive synergy between Mace/Shield even when not bunker built. Can’t remember the last time one of my weapon sets wasn’t mace shield.

I wanted a dual wield play style to change things up from all the GS or Hammer builds out there, and I made my gear choice mostly on personal pref looking to go a route that would not be full glass cannon, but give me plenty of offensive power, whilst still maintaining some decent survivability. I’ve always been more of a mix and mat h to taste kinda player when it comes to Armor in GW2, just suits my style. But the focus is still clearly offensive.

As for the build if you’ve watched the Matale’s vid you know most of it, the big changes is that I dropped “Defy Pain” for “Dual Wield” to add in a bit more kick in damage.

For the basic stuff, between “mending” and “cleansing Ire” you get a very solid amount of condi removal, Sword #2 and “bulls charge” give you great movement as well as the immobilize breaks. Yes I know it I would get more with GS, but its not the style I’m wanting to play right now.

Typically in most fits I start off in dual wield applying some pressure, and getting them crippled, swap to mace/shield as they start their counter attacking, laugh my way through it and once I am full adrenaline, I chain a skull crack – Final Trust – Dual strike – Cripple with savage leap or another stun with bulls charge – whirling axe. It has proven to be a very devastating combo with this set up, and can keep the enemy locked down pretty good. Now granted that is my game plan under optimal conditions, and I tailor my fight to each situation, but you get the gist.

Well anyways, please check out my build, tell me what you think, or even try it out yourselves. Looking forward to positive feedback and constructive criticism.

@Melonpan What swords are those in the first two pictures? Really like the simplistic style of them a lot!

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while it’s nice you’re warning people, I don’t see how raging on the forums fixes anything.

Pretty sure I’m not raging on the forums. I’m entitled to express my displeasure towards the way they handled my situation thus far. Raging would be if I came on typing in all caps cursing out the devs and telling them this game sucks… which it doesn’t, and I wouldn’t do that. I brought up my situation, and the companies current response to the problem, because I feel that it should be made known to everyone. Nothing wrong with that. Pretty sure I’ve earned my right to free speech!

Wanted to included another SS with the “Mystic Wand” shown in my bags, and you can tell from the chat box that I clearly got let down!

So I put in a report already, hadn’t seen any other posts ever confirming this recipe to be bugged, so I wanted to warn everyone else before they tried it! Last night I tried to craft the “Abyssal Scepter” using the recipe of 1 Eidritch Scroll, 100 Mystic Coins, 250 Ectoplasm, and 250 Ancient Scepter Rods. This is the recipe that seemed to be most obvious since all the other recipe’s of similar weapons/items with the Mesmer Effect have been made off of Ecto based recipe’s as well. I tried with Core and Rod, the Rod was the only thing that fit with the Ecto’s.

Well, after several days of farming and finally getting all the mats together, and even buying some gems out of pocket so that I could be the first to confirm this awesome Scepter’s Recipe, I received a “Mystic Wand” as my output from the recipe I used!!! Seriously? “Mystic Wand” already has it’s recipe and it’s a heck of a lot less mats/gold than what I put in hoping for Abyssal Scepter! I mean I understand the recipe wasn’t confirmed, but it seemed fairly obvious, and at the least I would have expected some named/unique item for the cost of the mats I dropped in the forge!

I know it’s not a legendary or anything, but this was my legendary. This item is 100x cooler looking than the legendary scepter IMO, and I was really exited to finally have it completed, only to be crushed by this bug! I already had a “Mystic Wand” and if I wanted another I could spend 2-3g and get it, not drop over 70g worth of mats to get completely ripped off! I mean come on now, I know A-Net is one of the few companies that usually cares about their customers, so I want to put this out for everyone to see, so that they have to make it right!

I submitted a report for this bug, and asked for the returning of my mats, or them to fix the bug and replace the Mystic Wand in my bags with the Abyssal Scepter that it should be! Kinda disappointing and ruins the excitement of getting that discovery, but after the kick down south I felt when I saw I got the Mystic Wand, I just want this fixed now. There response to my report is included below:

“Hi there;

We are very sorry to hear you ran into this issue. I’m afraid though that we don’t actually have a way to restore an item or items on a character once that item has been deleted or lost during a transmute. We would love to be able to assist with these matters, but we just don’t have the systems in place currently to allow for this sort of restoration. We understand this may be rather frustrating, so we apologies for any distress this causes you. We are working with the development team though to try and figure out a way to offer such services. In the meantime though we can simply not offer any compensation.

That said I would suggest keeping an eye on our main site , our Twitter #!/guildwars2, and our Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GuildWars2. Once we do have some information about possibly being able to make such restorations, we should post on those sites to let everyone know. For now you will have to keep things the way they are, but we thank you for your understanding and we hope you still have a blast playing the game.

Regards;
Chase
Guild Wars Support Team"

Seriously? You can design a game of this magnitude yet have no way to replace or fix my issue?!!! I’m detecting a computer generated “we really don’t care” response here, and I expected better from A-Net! I love this game, and have had a blast thus far, but how can you tell your customer base “oh well, sorry you got screwed, nothing we can do!” That’s just a terrible approach, and terrible support, and I feel that we deserve better than that!

So in my response I basically stated that if the items could not be refunded because they “don’t have the capability” then at the very least they should reimburse me with gems equalling the total value of the items that I lost, so that I could convert that into gold and at the very least put it towards another item. My time and effort and even money spent should not be in vein and given an “oh well”… that’s just not right! Even the horrible horrible customer service of that evil “Hello Panda” corporation known as blizzard is able to make things right for their customers when they are at fault due to a game bug or design!

I know there has to be something more that can be done here, A-Net has consistently proven that they are one of the few companies that does care about their player base, so I’m hoping they will make this right, as well as respond on here to let everyone know they intend to do so. Here you go A-Net, balls in your court. Please fix this, and make it right!